Basement of Iowa family's home flooded with animal blood, remains

Friday

An Iowa family recently awoke to a disgusting discovery: the basement of their home was flooded with animal blood and remains.

The mess came from a neighboring meat locker, according to NBC News.

Nick Lestina said he'd been planning on selling the home in Bagley, about 60 miles northwest of Des Moines, when the flood occured. Now, he's not sure what to do.

"Nobody wants to see that, smell that," he told Des Moines TV station WHO. "I wouldn't want that for anybody, to have that in their house."

Lestina had lived next to Dahl’s Meat Locker for a decade without incident. The business told the Des Moines Register it would help cover the costs associated with cleaning up the basement and replacing items that were damaged or destroyed.

"We don't want to harm anybody," Kaitlin Dahl said in an interview. "We're not bad people. We're trying to make a living, not enemies."

Dahl told the newspaper she's hoping the situation can be resolved without heading to court.